Akaba
(Encyclopedia) Akaba: see Aqaba, Jordan.
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Lompoc
(Encyclopedia) Lompoc lŏmˈpōk [key], city (1990 pop. 37,649), Santa Barbara co., S Calif., in an oil and agricultural area; inc. 1888. It has a huge flower-seed industry and two large diatomaceous earth mines. Pe...
Jabbok
(Encyclopedia) Jabbok, river, Jordan: see Zarqa.
Krak
(Encyclopedia) Krak: see Al Karak, Jordan.
Zerka
(Encyclopedia) Zerka, river, Jordan: see Zarqa.
Rabbah
(Encyclopedia) Rabbah or Rabbath: see Amman, Jordan.
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Cherith
(Encyclopedia) Cherith kērˈĭth [key], in the Bible, brook flowing into the Jordan opposite Samaria.
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Abarim
(Encyclopedia) Abarim ăbˈərĭm [key], in the Bible, general term for the country E of the Jordan.
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Glueck, Nelson
(Encyclopedia) Glueck, Nelson glo͝ok, glĭk [key], 1900–1971, American archaeologist and educator, b. Cincinnati, grad. Univ. of Cincinnati, 1920, Ph.D. Univ. of Jena, Germany, 1926. Among the more than 1,000 sit...
Abel-mizraim
(Encyclopedia) Abel-mizraim āˈbəl-mĭzrāˈĭm [key], in the Bible, place “beyond Jordan” where Jacob was mourned.
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